American Photography 42 Winners

The burn you need

This image is part of the project "No other country but America". Curatorial text by Marta Ciccolari Micaldi - Author and journalist specializing in North American culture: "No Other Country but America is the best contemporary visual representation of what writer Bret Easton Ellis had called, speaking of Los Angeles and the United States, "gleaming nihilism." For this is the most authentic legacy of the American dream today: to stop believing in it, at some point. And yet continue to relive it."

The hungriest country

This image is part of the project "No other country but America". Curatorial text by Marta Ciccolari Micaldi - Author and journalist specializing in North American culture: "There is no other place in the world that has its own dream for sale. There is no Italian dream or Thai dream or Chilean dream: there is only the American dream. The whole world looks up to this specific dream. It's in the USA's flag, in whose sacred stars we see a sky of infinite possibilities. We see it until, at some point, a point we cannot foresee or welcome, we see nothing more. And the dream becomes first confusion, then disillusionment, and finally - if one is lucky enough not to have in the meantime completely compromised the soul to buy that sinister dream - detachment. And thus, perhaps, salvation."